For Researchers & Academics

Map how ideas connect
across your research

Each research theme is a track. Each paper, finding, or hypothesis is a step. Ghost tiles show where evidence from one theme supports or challenges another. See the entire landscape of your research — not just the individual papers, but how they relate.

Map Your Research — Free

Research Themes as Parallel Tracks

A thesis isn't a single thread — it's multiple research themes that converge into an argument. Give each theme, methodology, or chapter its own track. Add papers, findings, and hypotheses as steps. See the whole landscape at a glance.

  • Tracks for literature themes, data collection, analysis, and writing
  • Rich text descriptions for literature notes, key quotes, and annotations
  • Attach PDFs, datasets, and reference materials directly to each step

Cross-Theme Connections as Ghost Tiles

The best research identifies how findings in one area illuminate another. When “Finding X from Theme A” supports “Hypothesis Y in Theme B”, link them — and see both appear inline in each other's tracks. Your cross-references become visible, not buried in footnotes.

  • Link a finding to a hypothesis — see the connection inline in both tracks
  • Spot knowledge gaps: if a theme has no ghost tiles, it's isolated from your broader argument
  • Build your theoretical framework visually before writing a single paragraph

Nested Depth for Complex Research

A literature review theme might need sub-tracks for foundational papers, empirical studies, and opposing viewpoints. A methodology track might nest quantitative and qualitative sub-tracks. Go as deep as your research requires.

  • Sub-tracks for literature categories, sub-themes, or analytical frameworks
  • Custom status tracking — rename defaults to “To Read”, “Annotating”, “Synthesised” or any labels that fit your research workflow (2–12 statuses per project)
  • Export your research map as PDF for supervision meetings or progress reviews

AI-Powered Research Planning

Tell the AI your research question and it generates a structured plan — literature review themes, methodology tracks, analysis steps. Ask AI Insights to identify gaps in your coverage or suggest which theme needs more depth.

  • “Plan a mixed-methods study on X” → AI scaffolds the entire research structure
  • Quick Ideas scratchpad for capturing thoughts during reading sessions
  • 43+ templates including research frameworks, thesis structures, and literature review maps

Share Privately — Invisible to the Internet

Share your research map with supervisors, collaborators, or review committees via an unguessable link that's completely hidden from search engines and AI crawlers. Your unpublished research structure stays invisible — only the people you share the link with can see it.

  • Unguessable links with 192-bit encryption-grade tokens — impossible to discover by browsing or guessing
  • Hidden from Google, Bing, and AI crawlers — your research outline will never appear in search or be scraped
  • Interactive mode lets your supervisor track progress on each paper without changing your original plan
  • Collaborators can “Use as Starting Point” to clone your literature map and build their own review (Basic+)

Live Template

See what a full dissertation architectureactually looks like inside TraqLinkr

This isn't a screenshot — it's a real project with 4 parallel workstreams, 37 milestones, 6 custom statuses, and 5 cross-workstream dependencies. Open it, explore it, then import it and make it yours.

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Literature & Conceptual Framework

9 milestones
Initial Scoping ReviewKey Themes IdentifiedTheme 1: Deep ReviewTheme 2: Deep ReviewTheoretical Framework+4 more
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Research Design & Methodology

9 milestones
Research Question FinalisedMethodology DecidedIRB SubmittedIRB ApprovalPilot Study+4 more
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Data Collection & Analysis

9 milestones
Participant RecruitmentData Collection Phase 1Data Coded / AnalysedChapter 4: FindingsChapter 5: Discussion+4 more
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Writing & Submission

10 milestones
Chapter 1: IntroductionFull Draft AssembledCommittee FeedbackDissertation DefenseFinal Submission+5 more

Cross-Workstream Dependencies

Key Themes IdentifiedResearch Question Finalised
IRB Approval ReceivedParticipant Recruitment Begins
Theme 3: Deep Literature ReviewData Coded / Analysed
Chapter 3 ApprovedData Collection Phase 1
Findings DocumentedChapter 1: Introduction Draft
Custom statuses:Not StartedIn ProgressWith ChairRevisingApprovedBlocked
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Stay On Track Across Everything

One agenda for tracking grant deadlines, experiment schedules, and publication milestones across multiple studies

  • See every deadline across all your research projects — grants, experiments, reviews — in one view
  • Reschedule and update statuses without switching between studies
  • Missed deadlines surface in Catch Up so nothing falls behind quietly

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